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Morgan Freeman, Jack Black and a host of other celebrities star in a video backing Americas' nuclear deal with Iran, wise-cracking their way through an often surreal mixture of Hollywood, politics and diplomacy. The video uploaded this week onto YouTube comes as President Barack Obama's administration tries to sell the agreement to the public and a sceptical Congress.

by Mark Finkelstein August 8, 2006 - 07:50 Bring back Katie! OK, perhaps that's not the solution, but the sycophantish display that Ann Curry put on for Queen Noor and her one-sided views of the conflict in the Middle East was enough to make you pound the TV screen in frustration. Noor is a Princeton-educated Arab-American who is the widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan. Curry began by asking Noor, a guest on this morning's Today show, "what insights might you offer America about what Hezbollah wants and what it's willing to do to get it?" Noor blamed...

The buzz in the publishing world this week has been about the auction, currently underway, for the memoirs of former CIA director George Tenet. The bidding — which should end early next week — could bring in as much as $5 million for the Bush administration defector. Whatever publisher wins, there's at least one person who can't lose — Robert Barnett, the D.C.-based attorney who represents Tenet. A senior partner of the D.C. firm Williams & Connelly, Barnett — who insists that journalists call him an attorney, not an agent — has become the go-to-guy if you think you've got...

Considering the fact that anti-Semitism is running rampant, with France’s choice of Le Pen an excellent recent example, it puzzles me as to why Noor feels piling on will help the situation now. Whereas in 1985, there was only one website spewing this AntiIsraeli hatred, today there are more than 4,000 sites devoted to the extermination of the Jews and the proliferation of the Muslim degeneracy of murder, rape, torture and extremism directed against all ”infidels” (those who choose other than the Islam way of slavery).

NEW YORK - As long as fighting continues in Iraq, cultural divides between the United States and the Muslim world will continue to deepen, Jordan's Queen Noor says. Muslims are seeing a very aggressive, confrontational side of American foreign policy that's not being balanced, in their minds, by a conviction that it is motivated by American principles, as opposed to economic issues," Noor said in an interview with The Associated Press. She said it is important to involve the United Nations (news - web sites) in the reconstruction process in postwar Iraq, where America's military presence is viewed by many...

"How much for this donkey? Bill wants to take him with us to Tijuana." "That's very impressive, Mr. President. Most people use a straw or a rolled up dollar bill." "So you are the famous Blind Nuns of Colombia?Come a little closer and shake my hand." "Well, it's about time someone shows me the proper respect." "Dude, the cocaine is right over here!" "Screech squonk fwamp blat honk pttttt...."